1 Initial Corpus generation

1.1 Corpus Creation

  1. Scopus download of documents retrieved from search string from Markard et al. (2012). Limited to LANGUAGE = ENGLISH AND TYPE = (ARTICLE).
  2. Selecting “seed” publications. 1% most cited per year. Ex-post manual exclusion. Results in 53 seed papers
  3. Retrieving for each seed 1000 publications with most shared references. Again, same limitations as in step 1.
  4. Adittional ex. post filtering. First, based on citations recieved and connectivity in bibliographic coupling network. Namely, I excluded edges in the bottom 10% quantile of the weight distribution (Jaccard weighted), also unconnected and nodes in the bottom 10% of the degree distribution. Lastly,after the community detection exercise, I excluded nodes in communities of less than 500 members.

That leads to an overall corpus size of:

## Number of unique publications in the final corpus:  9063

1.2 Seed Paper

In the following, we more in detail investigate the seed papers.

1.2.1 List of all seed papers

NOTE: NEEDS BETTER FORMAT

## 
## Converting your scopus collection into a bibliographic dataframe
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## Generating affiliation field tag AU_UN from C1:  Done!
NR AU PY TI J9 TC TC_year
44 GEELS FW;SCHOT J 2007 TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITION PATHWAYS RES POLICY 1841 141.61538
52 GEELS FW 2002 TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AS EVOLUTIONARY RECON… RES POLICY 2345 130.27778
25 MARKARD J;RAVEN R;TRUF… 2012 SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS: AN EMERGING FIELD O… RES POLICY 1029 128.62500
1 KÖHLER J;GEELS FW;KERN… 2019 AN AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS RESEAR… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 122 122.00000
32 SHOVE E 2010 BEYOND THE ABC: CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND THEOR… ENVIRON PLANN A 1088 108.80000
50 GEELS FW 2004 FROM SECTORAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION TO SOCIO-TE… RES POLICY 1465 91.56250
43 HEKKERT MP;SUURS RAA;N… 2007 FUNCTIONS OF INNOVATION SYSTEMS: A NEW APPROACH… TECHNOL FORECAST SOC CHANGE 1039 79.92308
23 SMITH A;RAVEN R 2012 WHAT IS PROTECTIVE SPACE? RECONSIDERING NICHES … RES POLICY 638 79.75000
42 BERGEK A;JACOBSSON S;C… 2008 ANALYZING THE FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGI… RES POLICY 824 68.66667
49 SMITH A;STIRLING A;BER… 2005 THE GOVERNANCE OF SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-TECHNICAL T… RES POLICY 1023 68.20000
40 SCHOT J;GEELS FW 2008 STRATEGIC NICHE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE INNO… TECHNOL ANAL STRATEG MANAGE 787 65.58333
35 GEELS FW 2010 ONTOLOGIES, SOCIO-TECHNICAL TRANSITIONS (TO SUS… RES POLICY 639 63.90000
3 SCHOT J;STEINMUELLER WE 2018 THREE FRAMES FOR INNOVATION POLICY: R&D, SYSTEM… RES POLICY 124 62.00000
38 LOORBACH D 2010 TRANSITION MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPME… GOVERNANCE 612 61.20000
54 KEMP R;SCHOT J;HOOGMA R 1998 REGIME SHIFTS TO SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH PROCESS… TECHNOL ANAL STRATEG MANAGE 1344 61.09091
12 KIVIMAA P;KERN F 2016 CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OR MERE NICHE SUPPORT? INN… RES POLICY 242 60.50000
9 GEELS FW;KERN F;FUCHS … 2016 THE ENACTMENT OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL TRANSITION PAT… RES POLICY 236 59.00000
11 SOVACOOL BK 2016 HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? CONCEPTUALIZING THE TEMP… ENERGY RES SOC SCI 235 58.75000
26 COENEN L;BENNEWORTH P;… 2012 TOWARD A SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE ON SUSTAINABILITY … RES POLICY 469 58.62500
2 KIVIMAA P;BOON W;HYYSA… 2019 TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF INTERMEDIARIES IN SUSTAIN… RES POLICY 57 57.00000
21 BULKELEY H;CASTÁN BROTO V 2013 GOVERNMENT BY EXPERIMENT? GLOBAL CITIES AND THE… TRANS INST BR GEOGR 397 56.71429
8 ROGGE KS;REICHARDT K 2016 POLICY MIXES FOR SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS: AN… RES POLICY 224 56.00000
27 SEYFANG G;HAXELTINE A 2012 GROWING GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS: EXPLORING THE R… ENVIRON PLANN C GOV POLICY 396 49.50000
51 GARUD R;KARNØE P 2003 BRICOLAGE VERSUS BREAKTHROUGH: DISTRIBUTED AND … RES POLICY 813 47.82353
41 MARKARD J;TRUFFER B 2008 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND THE MULTI-… RES POLICY 546 45.50000
22 GEELS FW 2012 A SOCIO-TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF LOW-CARBON TRANSI… J TRANSP GEOGR 353 44.12500
14 HANSEN T;COENEN L 2015 THE GEOGRAPHY OF SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS: RE… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 219 43.80000
4 CHERP A;VINICHENKO V;J… 2018 INTEGRATING TECHNO-ECONOMIC, SOCIO-TECHNICAL AN… ENERGY RES SOC SCI 86 43.00000
47 JACOBSSON S;LAUBER V 2006 THE POLITICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY SYSTEM TRANSF… ENERGY POLICY 576 41.14286
34 SHOVE E;WALKER G 2010 GOVERNING TRANSITIONS IN THE SUSTAINABILITY OF … RES POLICY 408 40.80000
18 FUENFSCHILLING L;TRUFF… 2014 THE STRUCTURATION OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL REGIMES - … RES POLICY 238 39.66667
33 HODSON M;MARVIN S 2010 CAN CITIES SHAPE SOCIO-TECHNICAL TRANSITIONS AN… RES POLICY 387 38.70000
48 GEELS FW 2005 TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AND SYSTEM INNOVATION… TECHNOL TRANS AND SYSTEM INNOVA: A CO-EVOL AND SOCIO-TECH ANAL 577 38.46667
39 MEADOWCROFT J 2009 WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICS? SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMEN… POLICY SCI 423 38.45455
17 STIRLING A 2014 TRANSFORMING POWER: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE POLI… ENERGY RES SOC SCI 222 37.00000
24 WEBER KM;ROHRACHER H 2012 LEGITIMIZING RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIO… RES POLICY 291 36.37500
20 NEVENS F;FRANTZESKAKI … 2013 URBAN TRANSITION LABS: CO-CREATING TRANSFORMATI… J CLEAN PROD 248 35.42857
37 SMITH A;STIRLING A 2010 THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AN… ECOL SOC 335 33.50000
5 LUEDERITZ C;SCHÄPKE N;… 2017 LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION – A TENTATIVE EVALU… J CLEAN PROD 100 33.33333
15 TURNHEIM B;BERKHOUT F;… 2015 EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS PATHWAYS:… GLOBAL ENVIRON CHANGE 166 33.20000
6 PATTERSON J;SCHULZ K;V… 2017 EXPLORING THE GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS OF TRANSF… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 99 33.00000
19 HARGREAVES T;HIELSCHER… 2013 GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNITY ENERGY: THE… GLOBAL ENVIRON CHANGE 227 32.42857
29 TRUFFER B;COENEN L 2012 ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY TRA… REG STUD 258 32.25000
7 AVELINO F;WITTMAYER JM 2016 SHIFTING POWER RELATIONS IN SUSTAINABILITY TRAN… J ENVIRON POLICY PLANN 122 30.50000
28 LAWHON M;MURPHY JT 2012 SOCIO-TECHNICAL REGIMES AND SUSTAINABILITY TRAN… PROG HUM GEOGR 240 30.00000
36 LOORBACH D;ROTMANS J 2010 THE PRACTICE OF TRANSITION MANAGEMENT: EXAMPLES… FUTURES 300 30.00000
45 VERBONG G;GEELS F 2007 THE ONGOING ENERGY TRANSITION: LESSONS FROM A S… ENERGY POLICY 388 29.84615
31 MEADOWCROFT J 2011 ENGAGING WITH THE POLITICS OF SUSTAINABILITY TR… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 251 27.88889
16 SEYFANG G;HIELSCHER S;… 2014 A GRASSROOTS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY NICHE? REFLECTI… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 167 27.83333
13 SMITH A;HARGREAVES T;H… 2016 MAKING THE MOST OF COMMUNITY ENERGIES: THREE PE… ENVIRON PLANN A 111 27.75000
46 KEMP R;LOORBACH D;ROTM… 2007 TRANSITION MANAGEMENT AS A MODEL FOR MANAGING P… INT J SUSTAINABLE DEV WORLD ECOL 357 27.46154
10 RAVEN R;KERN F;VERHEES… 2016 NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCI… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 108 27.00000
53 JACOBSSON S;JOHNSON A 2000 THE DIFFUSION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY: A… ENERGY POLICY 536 26.80000
30 WÜSTENHAGEN R;MENICHET… 2012 STRATEGIC CHOICES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTME… ENERGY POLICY 210 26.25000

1.2.2 Seep papers and corpus size

Generally, 50 x 1000 = 50.000 documents downloaded. However, due to an overlap of publications with most shared references to seed papers, final corpus is smaller.

2 General Overview over the ST and surrounding fields

2.1 Main Indicators: Publications, Authors, Countries

To start with, a general overview over the documents in the corpus

## 
## 
## MAIN INFORMATION ABOUT DATA
## 
##  Timespan                              1998 : 2020 
##  Sources (Journals, Books, etc)        1465 
##  Documents                             9063 
##  Average years from publication        7.58 
##  Average citations per documents       46.91 
##  Average citations per year per doc    4.702 
##  References                            475918 
##  
## DOCUMENT TYPES                     
##  article      9063 
##  
## DOCUMENT CONTENTS
##  Keywords Plus (ID)                    12999 
##  Author's Keywords (DE)                15440 
##  
## AUTHORS
##  Authors                               13661 
##  Author Appearances                    22719 
##  Authors of single-authored documents  1977 
##  Authors of multi-authored documents   11684 
##  
## AUTHORS COLLABORATION
##  Single-authored documents             2623 
##  Documents per Author                  0.663 
##  Authors per Document                  1.51 
##  Co-Authors per Documents              2.51 
##  Collaboration Index                   1.81 
##  
## 
## Annual Scientific Production
## 
##  Year    Articles
##     1998      100
##     1999      100
##     2000      122
##     2001      126
##     2002      133
##     2003      171
##     2004      178
##     2005      178
##     2006      235
##     2007      284
##     2008      312
##     2009      381
##     2010      459
##     2011      536
##     2012      621
##     2013      642
##     2014      686
##     2015      712
##     2016      697
##     2017      758
##     2018      762
##     2019      656
##     2020      214
## 
## Annual Percentage Growth Rate 3.5187 
## 
## 
## Most Productive Authors
## 
##    Authors        Articles   Authors        Articles Fractionalized
## 1  GEELS FW             53 GEELS FW                            31.5
## 2  HEKKERT MP           43 WONGLIMPIYARAT J                    21.5
## 3  SOVACOOL BK          37 LEYDESDORFF L                       20.3
## 4  TRUFFER B            35 SOVACOOL BK                         18.6
## 5  LEYDESDORFF L        34 NELSON RR                           15.0
## 6  RAVEN R              34 SMITH A                             14.5
## 7  FRANTZESKAKI N       33 HEKKERT MP                          13.7
## 8  BULKELEY H           32 BULKELEY H                          13.4
## 9  COENEN L             32 TRUFFER B                           13.2
## 10 SMITH A              32 KEMP R                              12.7
## 
## 
## Top manuscripts per citations
## 
##                          Paper            TC TCperYear
## 1  SHANE S, 2000, ACAD MANAGE REV       5320       253
## 2  ETZKOWITZ H, 2000, RES POLICY        2860       136
## 3  LAURSEN K, 2006, STRATEGIC MANAGE J  2654       177
## 4  ORLIKOWSKI WJ, 2000, ORGAN SCI       2425       115
## 5  BATHELT H, 2004, PROG HUM GEOGR      2393       141
## 6  GEELS FW, 2002, RES POLICY           2345       123
## 7  SHANE S, 2000, ORGAN SCI             2116       101
## 8  SARASVATHY SD, 2001, ACAD MANAGE REV 2058       103
## 9  BENNER MJ, 2003, ACAD MANAGE REV     2054       114
## 10 GEELS FW, 2007, RES POLICY           1841       132
## 
## 
## Corresponding Author's Countries
## 
##           Country Articles   Freq SCP MCP MCP_Ratio
## 1  UNITED KINGDOM     1168 0.1870 956 212     0.182
## 2  USA                 776 0.1243 654 122     0.157
## 3  NETHERLANDS         729 0.1167 552 177     0.243
## 4  GERMANY             432 0.0692 309 123     0.285
## 5  SWEDEN              336 0.0538 247  89     0.265
## 6  ITALY               269 0.0431 202  67     0.249
## 7  AUSTRALIA           235 0.0376 177  58     0.247
## 8  CANADA              235 0.0376 174  61     0.260
## 9  NORWAY              180 0.0288 141  39     0.217
## 10 DENMARK             178 0.0285 132  46     0.258
## 
## 
## SCP: Single Country Publications
## 
## MCP: Multiple Country Publications
## 
## 
## Total Citations per Country
## 
##      Country      Total Citations Average Article Citations
## 1  USA                      80302                    103.48
## 2  UNITED KINGDOM           75876                     64.96
## 3  NETHERLANDS              42815                     58.73
## 4  SWEDEN                   20253                     60.28
## 5  GERMANY                  19681                     45.56
## 6  CANADA                   14551                     61.92
## 7  ITALY                    11123                     41.35
## 8  DENMARK                   9556                     53.69
## 9  AUSTRALIA                 9555                     40.66
## 10 SPAIN                     7965                     50.73
## 
## 
## Most Relevant Sources
## 
##                                       Sources        Articles
## 1  ENERGY POLICY                                          424
## 2  RESEARCH POLICY                                        362
## 3  TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE            316
## 4  ENERGY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL SCIENCE                     260
## 5  JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION                          228
## 6  SUSTAINABILITY (SWITZERLAND)                           214
## 7  ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS      199
## 8  ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY                                    171
## 9  EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES                              164
## 10 TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT           150
## 
## 
## Most Relevant Keywords
## 
##     Author Keywords (DE)      Articles    Keywords-Plus (ID)     Articles
## 1  INNOVATION                      651 INNOVATION                    1688
## 2  SUSTAINABILITY                  375 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT        890
## 3  CLIMATE CHANGE                  348 SUSTAINABILITY                 867
## 4  GOVERNANCE                      309 CLIMATE CHANGE                 836
## 5  RENEWABLE ENERGY                270 ENERGY POLICY                  706
## 6  SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS      220 GOVERNANCE APPROACH            649
## 7  RESILIENCE                      194 UNITED KINGDOM                 490
## 8  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT         163 TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT      485
## 9  TRANSITION                      161 EUROPE                         452
## 10 ENERGY TRANSITION               158 DECISION MAKING                389

2.2 Cited references

Top 20 cited references:

CR n
GEELS, F.W., TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AS EVOLUTIONARY RECONFIGURATION PROCESSES: A MULTI-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE AND A CASE-STUDY (2002) RES. POLICY, 31, PP. 1257-1274 211
GEELS, F.W., SCHOT, J., TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITION PATHWAYS (2007) RES. POLICY, 36, PP. 399-417 206
UNRUH, G.C., UNDERSTANDING CARBON LOCK-IN (2000) ENERGY POLICY, 28, PP. 817-830 171
ROTMANS, J., KEMP, R., VAN ASSELT, M., MORE EVOLUTION THAN REVOLUTION: TRANSITION MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC POLICY (2001) FORESIGHT, 3 (1), PP. 15-31 169
MARKARD, J., RAVEN, R., TRUFFER, B., SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS: AN EMERGING FIELD OF RESEARCH AND ITS PROSPECTS (2012) RES. POLICY, 41, PP. 955-967 164
COHEN, W.M., LEVINTHAL, D.A., ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION (1990) ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY, 35, PP. 128-152 151
DOSI, G., TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES (1982) RESEARCH POLICY, 11, PP. 147-162 147
GEELS, F.W., TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AS EVOLUTIONARY RECONFIGURATION PROCESSES: A MULTI-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE AND A CASE-STUDY (2002) RESEARCH POLICY, 31, PP. 1257-1274 138
GEELS, F.W., TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AS EVOLUTIONARY RECONFIGURATION PROCESSES: A MULTI-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE AND A CASE-STUDY (2002) RESEARCH POLICY, 31 (8-9), PP. 1257-1274 118
WARDE, A., CONSUMPTION AND THEORIES OF PRACTICE (2005) JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE, 5 (2), PP. 131-153 114
ROTMANS, J., KEMP, R., VAN ASSELT, M., MORE EVOLUTION THAN REVOLUTION: TRANSITION MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC POLICY (2001) FORESIGHT, 3, PP. 15-31 112
SMITH, A., RAVEN, R., WHAT IS PROTECTIVE SPACE? RECONSIDERING NICHES IN TRANSITIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY (2012) RES. POLICY, 41, PP. 1025-1036 111
UNRUH, G.C., UNDERSTANDING CARBON LOCK-IN (2000) ENERGY POLICY, 28 (12), PP. 817-830 111
DOSI, G., TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES: A SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION OF THE DETERMINANTS AND DIRECTIONS OF TECHNICAL CHANGE (1982) RESEARCH POLICY, 11, PP. 147-162 109
GEELS, F.W., SCHOT, J., TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITION PATHWAYS (2007) RESEARCH POLICY, 36, PP. 399-417 108
BATHELT, H., MALMBERG, A., MASKELL, P., CLUSTERS AND KNOWLEDGE: LOCAL BUZZ, GLOBAL PIPELINES AND THE PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION (2004) PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 28, PP. 31-56 107
GEELS, F.W., SCHOT, J., TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITION PATHWAYS (2007) RESEARCH POLICY, 36 (3), PP. 399-417 107
TUSHMAN, M.L., ANDERSON, P., TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS (1986) ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY, 31, PP. 439-465 106
GEELS, F.W., SCHOT, J., TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITION PATHWAYS (2007) RES. POLICY, 36 (3), PP. 399-417 105
BATHELT, H., MALMBERG, A., MASKELL, P., CLUSTERS AND KNOWLEDGE: LOCAL BUZZ, GLOBAL PIPELINES AND THE PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION (2004) PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 28 (1), PP. 31-56 102

2.3 Conceptual trajectories: Historical citation path analysis

## 
##  Legend
## 
##                                                                 Label Year LCS  GCS
## 1   KÖHLER J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 2019  33  122
## 2                                           SCHOT J, 2018, RES POLICY 2018  25  124
## 3                                           SCHOT J, 2018, RES POLICY 2018  23   46
## 4                                     LUEDERITZ C, 2017, J CLEAN PROD 2017  10  100
## 5                             AVELINO F, 2016, J ENVIRON POLICY PLANN 2016  43  122
## 6                             AVELINO F, 2016, J ENVIRON POLICY PLANN 2016  37   84
## 7                               SOVACOOL BK, 2016, ENERGY RES SOC SCI 2016  72  235
## 8                               SOVACOOL BK, 2016, ENERGY RES SOC SCI 2016  25   61
## 9   HANSEN T, 2015, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 2015 110  219
## 10                                        MARKARD J, 2012, RES POLICY 2012 501 1029
## 11                                         COENEN L, 2012, RES POLICY 2012 227  469
## 12                                          TRUFFER B, 2012, REG STUD 2012 129  258
## 13                                 FASTENRATH S, 2018, SUSTAINABILITY 2018   2    5
## 14                                     EDMONDSON DL, 2019, RES POLICY 2019   3   26
## 15                             WIECZOREK AJ, 2018, ENVIRON SCI POLICY 2018  11   30
## 16                                  SCHLAILE MP, 2017, SUSTAINABILITY 2017   7   32
## 17 TORRENS J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 2019   2    4
## 18                                          RAKAS M, 2019, RES POLICY 2019   2    3
## 19                                 ROGGE KS, 2017, ENERGY RES SOC SCI 2017  21   68
## 20                                 ROGGE KS, 2017, ENERGY RES SOC SCI 2017  13   27
## 21                                           BINZ C, 2017, RES POLICY 2017  29   81
## 22                                   ZOLFAGHARIAN M, 2019, RES POLICY 2019   0    2
## 23 GRANDIN J, 2020, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 2020   0    1
## 24                                      STRAMBACH S, 2020, RES POLICY 2020   0    1
## 25                                     TURNHEIM B, 2019, RES POLICY-a   NA  NA   NA
## 26                                PILLONI M, 2020, ENERGY RES SOC SCI 2020   0    2
## 27   GOYAL N, 2020, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 2020   0    1
## IGRAPH cf0bd9e DN-- 23 56 -- 
## + attr: name (v/c), id (v/c), size (v/n), years (v/n), color (e/c)
## + edges from cf0bd9e (vertex names):
## [1] KÖHLER J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS->ZOLFAGHARIAN M, 2019, RES POLICY                                  
## [2] KÖHLER J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS->GRANDIN J, 2020, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
## [3] KÖHLER J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS->STRAMBACH S, 2020, RES POLICY                                     
## [4] SCHOT J, 2018, RES POLICY                                        ->GRANDIN J, 2020, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
## [5] SCHOT J, 2018, RES POLICY                                        ->TURNHEIM B, 2019, RES POLICY-a                                    
## [6] LUEDERITZ C, 2017, J CLEAN PROD                                  ->KÖHLER J, 2019, ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 
## + ... omitted several edges

2.3.1 Authors, Themes & Journals

3 Topic modelling

I by now created some topic modelling. The results are now more fine-tuned, but there is still room for some improvement. We ran a LDA on the titles + abstracts of our corpus, aiming at identifying 10 topics (some different numbers of topics to generate shows that 10 result in good results, more topics lead to too much overlap between them)

3.1 Topics by topwords

This might still be finetuned, but initially doesnt look that bad I think. All the topics for me seem to be somewhat identifiable. We should maybe start naming them to make their interpretation later easier.

3.2 Topics over time

3.3 LDAViz

Here you find a nice way of exploring topics via the LDAVIz methodology of visulizing the result of an LDA. It dispolays all topics in a 2 dimensional TSNE (similar to PCA, but optimized for graphical illustration in 2d), and also gives a nice visual representation over the topics top-word distribution and overall frequencies of this words in the corpus. The \(\lambda\) parameter regulates the importance-ordering of the topwords. High \(\lambda\) order words by the highest propability to appear in the topic to the lowest (independent of the overall word popularity in the corpus), whle low \(\lambda\) emphasize words which are very specific to the topic, and rarely appear in others.

Play a bit around. Since it would be here a bit condensed, better check it out HERE in fullscreen for a better overview.

4 Knowledge Bases: Co-Citation network analysis

Note: This analysis refers the co-citation analysis, where the cited references and not the original publications are the unit of analysis. See tab Technical descriptionfor additional explanations

4.1 Knowledge Bases summary

4.1.1 Main Indicators

In order to partition networks into components or clusters, we deploy a community detection technique based on the Lovain Algorithm (Blondel et al., 2008). The Lovain Algorithm is a heuristic method that attempts to optimize the modularity of communities within a network by maximizing within- and minimizing between-community connectivity. We identify the following communities = knowledge bases.

It is not the main focus of this exercise, but still informative to see which historical knowledge the fields draws from.

NOTE: Up to now I only report the most central members per community

com name dgr_int dgr
1 GEELS F.W. TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS AS EVOLUTI… 10736 13702
1 GEELS F.W. SCHOT J. TYPOLOGY OF SOCIOTECHNICAL … 9064 11102
1 KEMP R. SCHOT J. HOOGMA R. REGIME SHIFTS TO SUS… 8431 10546
1 MARKARD J. RAVEN R. TRUFFER B. SUSTAINABILITY T… 8138 9636
1 RIP A. KEMP R. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE (1998) 7234 9447
1 SMITH A. STIRLING A. BERKHOUT F. THE GOVERNANCE… 6386 7717
1 SMITH A. RAVEN R. WHAT IS PROTECTIVE SPACE? REC… 5846 6558
1 GEELS F.W. THE MULTI-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE ON SUSTA… 5178 5736
1 BERGEK A. JACOBSSON S. CARLSSON B. LINDMARK S. … 4745 6550
1 GEELS F.W. FROM SECTORAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION … 4539 5466
2 NELSON R.R. WINTER S.G. (1982) 8266 13836
2 TUSHMAN M.L. ANDERSON P. TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONTI… 4125 4645
2 SCHUMPETER J.A. (1934) 3691 4817
2 HENDERSON R.M. CLARK K.B. ARCHITECTURAL INNOVAT… 3673 4135
2 COHEN W.M. LEVINTHAL D.A. ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: … 3600 6536
2 TEECE D.J. PISANO G. SHUEN A. DYNAMIC CAPABILIT… 3194 3897
2 CHRISTENSEN C.M. (1997) 3121 3544
2 NELSON R. WINTER S. (1982) 2997 5515
2 DOSI G. TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND TECHNOLOGIC… 2850 5095
2 DOSI G. TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND TECHNOLOGIC… 2826 4901
3 BATHELT H. MALMBERG A. MASKELL P. CLUSTERS AND … 4290 5417
3 STORPER M. (1997) 2955 4070
3 MARTIN R. SUNLEY P. PATH DEPENDENCE AND REGIONA… 2521 3226
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4.1.2 Development of Knowledge Bases

4.2 Technical description

In a co-cittion network, the strength of the relationship between a reference pair \(m\) and \(n\) (\(s_{m,n}^{coc}\)) is expressed by the number of publications \(C\) which are jointly citing reference \(m\) and \(n\).

\[s_{m,n}^{coc} = \sum_i c_{i,m} c_{i,n}\]

The intuition here is that references which are frequently cited together are likely to share commonalities in theory, topic, methodology, or context. It can be interpreted as a measure of similarity as evaluated by other researchers that decide to jointly cite both references. Because the publication process is time-consuming, co-citation is a backward-looking measure, which is appropriate to map the relationship between core literature of a field.

5 Research Areas: Bibliographic coupling analysis

This is arguably the more interesting part. Here, we identify the literature’s current knowledge frontier by carrying out a bibliographic coupling analysis of the publications in our corpus. This measure uses bibliographical information of publications to establish a similarity relationship between them. Again, method details to be found in the tab Technical description. As you will see, we identify the more narrow research community of Sustainability Transitions (in which we will zoom in later), but also a set of adjacent research areas with some theoretical/methodological/application overlap.

5.1 Research Areas main summary

5.1.1 Main Characteristics

To identify communities in the field’s knowledge frontier (labeled research areas) we again use the Lovain Algorithm (Blondel et al., 2008). We identify the following communities = research areas.

5.1.2 Categorization

I up to now gain only provide the 10 most central articles, which can be used to classify them

com AU PY TI J9 dgr_int TC TC_year
1 GARUD R;TUERTSCHER P;V… 2013 PERSPECTIVES ON INNOVATION PROCESSES ACAD MANAGE ANNALS 3720 129 18.428571
1 LEYDESDORFF L 2010 THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY AND THE TRIPLE HELI… ANNU REV INF SCI TECHNOL 2634 57 5.700000
1 DOSI G;NELSON RR 2013 THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES: AN ASSESSMENT OF… EURASIAN BUS REVIEW 2417 53 7.571429
1 HUGGINS R;THOMPSON P 2013 A NETWORK-BASED VIEW OF REGIONAL GROWTH J ECON GEOGR 2412 83 11.857143
1 NIETO M 2003 FROM R AND D MANAGEMENT TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT… TECHNOL FORECAST SOC CHANGE 2234 46 2.705882
1 COMPANYS YE;MCMULLEN JS 2007 STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURS AT WORK: THE NATURE, DI… SMALL BUS ECON 2183 132 10.153846
1 GARUD R;GEHMAN J 2012 METATHEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY … RES POLICY 2145 109 13.625000
1 AGGARWAL VA;POSEN HE;W… 2017 ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: A MI… STRATEGIC MANAGE J 1972 13 4.333333
1 LAZZERETTI L;SEDITA SR… 2014 FOUNDERS AND DISSEMINATORS OF CLUSTER RESEARCH J ECON GEOGR 1843 49 8.166667
1 ZHU S;JIN W;HE C 2019 ON EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: A LITERATUR… EUR PLANN STUD 1843 7 7.000000
2 GOSENS J;LU Y 2013 FROM LAGGING TO LEADING? TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATI… ENERGY POLICY 6195 53 7.571429
2 STERN DI 2017 HOW ACCURATE ARE ENERGY INTENSITY PROJECTIONS? CLIM CHANGE 6064 5 1.666667
2 GUNN S;HILLIER J 2012 PROCESSES OF INNOVATION: REFORMATION OF THE ENG… PLANN THEORY PRAC 5610 20 2.500000
2 BRYANT RL 2013 BRANDING NATURAL RESOURCES: SCIENCE, VIOLENCE A… TRANS INST BR GEOGR 5026 7 1.000000
2 WIESENTHAL T;LEDUC G;H… 2012 BOTTOM-UP ESTIMATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND PUBLIC R… RES POLICY 4835 45 5.625000
2 MAGNUSSON D 2012 SWEDISH DISTRICT HEATING-A SYSTEM IN STAGNATION… ENERGY POLICY 4730 52 6.500000
2 LIN B;JIANG Z 2011 ESTIMATES OF ENERGY SUBSIDIES IN CHINA AND IMPA… ENERGY ECON 4556 180 20.000000
2 ELY A;VAN ZWANENBERG P… 2014 BROADENING OUT AND OPENING UP TECHNOLOGY ASSESS… RES POLICY 4536 33 5.500000
2 KIMURA O 2010 PUBLIC R&D AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF ENERGY-EFFI… ENERGY POLICY 4341 17 1.700000
2 WANG J;FENG L;DAVIDSSO… 2013 CHINESE COAL SUPPLY AND FUTURE PRODUCTION OUTLOOKS ENERGY 4319 58 8.285714
3 MARKARD J;RAVEN R;TRUF… 2012 SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS: AN EMERGING FIELD O… RES POLICY 7456 1029 128.625000
3 KIVIMAA P;KERN F 2016 CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OR MERE NICHE SUPPORT? INN… RES POLICY 4233 242 60.500000
3 PESCH U 2015 TRACING DISCURSIVE SPACE: AGENCY AND CHANGE IN … TECHNOL FORECAST SOC CHANGE 4143 42 8.400000
3 SORRELL S 2018 EXPLAINING SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITIONS: A CRITIC… RES POLICY 4030 13 6.500000
3 BORGHEI B;MAGNUSSON T 2016 NICHE EXPERIMENTS WITH ALTERNATIVE POWERTRAIN T… INT J AUTOMOT TECHNOL MANAGE 3969 5 1.250000
3 FUENFSCHILLING L;TRUFF… 2014 THE STRUCTURATION OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL REGIMES - … RES POLICY 3917 238 39.666667
3 MOORE AW;KING L;DALE A… 2018 TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR LOCAL DEVEL… ECOL SOC 3888 4 2.000000
3 GOYAL N;HOWLETT M 2018 TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUMENT CONSTITUENCIES AS AGE… ENERGIES 3827 3 1.500000
3 FASTENRATH S;BRAUN B 2018 LOST IN TRANSITION? DIRECTIONS FOR AN ECONOMIC … SUSTAINABILITY 3696 5 2.500000
3 EHNERT F;KERN F;BORGST… 2018 URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS IN A CONTEXT O… ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS 3643 30 15.000000
4 KULOZU UZUNBOY N 2020 EFFECT OF TRANSNATIONAL CLIMATE NETWORKS ON CLI… ENVIRON DEV SUSTAINABILITY 5047 1 Inf
4 SCHMITT TM 2018 (WHY) DID DESERTEC FAIL? AN INTERIM ANALYSIS OF… LOCAL ENVIRON 4941 3 1.500000
4 WANG J;BENTLEY Y;BENTL… 2018 MODELING INDIA’S COAL PRODUCTION WITH A NEGATIV… NAT RESOURC RES 4932 3 1.500000
4 UPHAM P;KLITKOU A;OLSE… 2016 USING TRANSITION MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS FOR THE EV… INT J FORESIGHT INNOV POLICY 4791 5 1.250000
4 DONATIELLO D;RAMELLA F 2017 THE INNOVATION PARADOX IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. UNEX… SOUTH EUR SOC POLIT 4751 6 2.000000
4 GILLARD R;LOCK K 2017 BLOWING POLICY BUBBLES: RETHINKING EMISSIONS TA… J ENVIRON POLICY PLANN 4633 7 2.333333
4 EL BILALI H 2018 RELATION BETWEEN INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY … ITAL J FOOD SCI 4344 12 6.000000
4 OKKONEN L;LEHTONEN O 2016 SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY WIND POWER … RENEW ENERGY 4306 34 8.500000
4 HILDINGSSON R;JOHANSSON B 2016 GOVERNING LOW-CARBON ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN SUST… ENERGY POLICY 4240 9 2.250000
4 TENGGREN S;WANGEL J;NI… 2016 TRANSMISSION TRANSITIONS: BARRIERS, DRIVERS, AN… ENERGY RES SOC SCI 4228 11 2.750000
5 FOLKE C 2016 RESILIENCE (REPUBLISHED) ECOL SOC 2927 120 30.000000
5 OLLIVIER G;MAGDA D;MAZ… 2018 AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS: WHAT CAN SUSTAINABI… ECOL SOC 1090 9 4.500000
5 STONE-JOVICICH S 2015 PROBING THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THE SOCIAL SCIEN… ECOL SOC 1072 52 10.400000
5 CHAFFIN BC;GOSNELL H;C… 2014 A DECADE OF ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE SCHOLARSHIP: SY… ECOL SOC 1061 217 36.166667
5 BERKES F 2017 ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE? … SUSTAINABILITY 1034 51 17.000000
5 DECARO DA;CHAFFIN BC;S… 2017 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF ADAPTIVE… ECOL SOC 993 31 10.333333
5 FABINYI M;EVANS L;FOAL… 2014 SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SOCIAL DIVERSITY, AN… ECOL SOC 989 125 20.833333
5 BARRETEAU O;GIBAND D;S… 2016 BRINGING TOGETHER SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM AND … ECOL SOC 881 10 2.500000
5 ENGLE NL 2011 ADAPTIVE CAPACITY AND ITS ASSESSMENT GLOBAL ENVIRON CHANGE 869 463 51.444444
5 BAEHLER KJ;BIDDLE JC 2018 GOVERNANCE FOR ADAPTIVE CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE… ECOL SOC 783 1 0.500000

5.1.3 Development

We again see quite some dynamics….

5.1.4 Connectivity between the research areas

5.1.5 Technical description

In a bibliographic coupling network, the coupling-strength between publications is determined by the number of commonly cited references they share, assuming a common pool of references to indicate similarity in context, methods, or theory. Formally, the strength of the relationship between a publication pair \(i\) and \(j\) (\(s_{i,j}^{bib}\)) is expressed by the number of commonly cited references.

\[ s_{i,j}^{bib} = \sum_m c_{i,m} c_{j,m} \]

Since our corpus contains publications which differ strongly in terms of the number of cited references, we normalize the coupling strength by the Jaccard similarity coefficient. Here, we weight the intercept of two publications’ bibliography (shared refeences) by their union (number of all references cited by either \(i\) or \(j\)). It is bounded between zero and one, where one indicates the two publications to have an identical bibliography, and zero that they do not share any cited reference. Thereby, we prevent publications from having high coupling strength due to a large bibliography (e.g., literature surveys).

\[ S_{i,j}^{jac-bib} =\frac{C(i \cap j)}{C(i \cup j)} = \frac{s_{i,j}^{bib}}{c_i + c_j - s_{i,j}^{bib}} \]

More recent articles have a higher pool of possible references to co-cite to, hence they are more likely to be coupled. Consequently, bibliographic coupling represents a forward looking measure, and the method of choice to identify the current knowledge frontier at the point of analysis.